Sealing material
AssigneesNok Corporation, Kaneka Corporation
InventorsMasashi Kudo, Kenichi Fujimoto, Atsushi Koga, Yoshifumi Kojima, Osamu Ando, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Abstract
A sealing material, which comprises a curing product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components, is suitable for use as cam cover seals and oil pan seals for automobile engines, fuel cell cooling medium seals, automobile wire harnesses seals, HDD cover gasket or vibration-insulating HDD cover gasket seals, etc.
Claims7
(canceled)
2:
- A sealing material in combination with an automobile engine cam cover wherein the sealing material seals the automobile engine cam cover and comprises a cured product of a composition comprising (A) an acrylic polymer having at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction, (B) a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst as essential components.
3:
- A sealing material according to claim 2, where a liquid acrylic polymer having a number average molecular weight Mn of 500 or more and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.8 or less is used as component (A) of the composition.
4:
- A sealing material according to claim 2, where the cured product of the composition has a Duro A hardness of 45 or less.
5:
- A sealing material according to claim 2, in combination with a resin-made cam cover.
6:
- Δn automobile engine cam cover sealed by a sealing material for cam covers according to claim 2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.